Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 503A.003 · Chapter 503A. DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER GENETIC TESTING COMPANIES; RIGHTS REGARDING DNA
EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY RIGHT IN DNA; CONFIDENTIALITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
An individual has a property right in, and retains the right to exercise exclusive control over, the individual's biological sample that is provided to or used by a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company and the results of genetic testing or analysis conducted on the individual's DNA by a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company, including to the collection, use, retention, maintenance, disclosure, or destruction of the sample or results. The results of the genetic testing of an individual's DNA are confidential and may not be disclosed to another person without the individual's express consent.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 912 (H.B. 2545), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.503A.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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